LARGO, Fla. — Bunny Pearce has been slamming the bass drum in the same band for 44 years and has no plans to stop. “They’ll have to pry the sticks from my cold, dead fingers,” she said. Her passion is ...
SCOTLAND’S national musical instrument, the bagpipe entered the Uttarakhand hills through army troupes stationed in Garhwal and Kumoan during the British period. But, the foreign musical instrument ...
One night this past spring, the audience members at a bagpipe concert in Red Hook, Brooklyn, could be organized into two neat categories: people who knew little to nothing about bagpipes—the ...
When Duncan Menzies was young (a Scot might say wee) he decided he wanted to learn to play the bagpipes. He was successful — after years of incredibly trying practice. Then, in his twenties, he ...
A bus station has been criticised after it was revealed it plays loud bagpipe music throughout the night in order to deter homeless people from using it as a shelter. As part of an ongoing bid to ...
Imagine looking at the ocean in Cambria and, over the sounds of the sea and the marine birds, hearing bagpipe music at sunset. People who hike along the southern part of Cambria’s Fiscalini Ranch ...
Tourist shops in Edinburgh have been banned from playing loud bagpipe music into the street. The move by the city council follows complaints about the volume of the music from locals. Bagpipe music ...
A 24-hour McDonald's in Sacramento has been playing bagpipe music outside to drive the homeless away, and the neighbors aren't loving it. Arnold Phillips, who lives across the street from the ...
When you think of bagpipes you think of Scotland right? The truth is, you shouldn’t. While it has never been pin-pointed, most academics believe you shouldn’t look much farther than the Middle East.